Katy Korkos Studio

photo credit: Terry Foxx, 2008

Love of design

 "Those of us who want to make things all have something to say, things we’ve been thinking about. My themes are about language, pattern recognition, maps and the inspiration I get from nature and natural forms. Your thought patterns are probably much different from mine, but it is always the thought behind the piece that makes it really engaging for others."

Artist Statement

 Katy Korkos is a long-time Los Alamos resident, and has shown her work regularly throughout New Mexico as well as throughout the United States since the mid-1990s.

Her primary medium is fiber, which encompasses paper as well as textiles. Many of her pieces can be called studio or art quilts, with roots in traditional quilting. Her works on paper are primarily collage or assemblage pieces.

The common theme among much of Katy's recent work is the artist’s fascination with the iconography of birds.

“I often use birds as a design motif in my work because of all the things they symbolize to me: expressiveness, song, flight, beauty, freedom, cages, nesting, the potential in an egg, living in the trees, fragility and  endurance,” Korkos says.